The<i>Youth Lens</i>

Petrone, Robert; Sarigianides, Sophia Tatiana; Lewis, Mark A.

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“…Because these literary elements are tools through which authors build alternate realities and imagined characters, the template served to guide our attempts to collect as many examples of representations of adolescents/ce as possible from each novel. Any time an adolescent experience occurs in the narrative or an adolescent character speaks, acts, or is described, we documented it under the literary element through which it was represented (e.g., characterization: the description or dialogue of an adolescent character, setting: an adolescent character changing location, plot: a scene depicting a typical adolescent experience such as puberty) instead of focusing on specific questions like Petrone et al (2014) did.…”

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“…The youth lens proposed by Petrone, Sarigianides, and Lewis (2014) provides opportunities for students and teachers to critique these social constructs of youths as they are represented in literary texts. The key precepts of the youth lens are that adolescence is a construct, adolescence is not a universal experience, adolescence has consequences, and adolescence is a symbolic placeholder.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The key precepts of the youth lens are that adolescence is a construct, adolescence is not a universal experience, adolescence has consequences, and adolescence is a symbolic placeholder. These authors emphasized the need to avoid reductive, deficit views of young people and conceptualized youths as complex, contradictory individuals not fully determined by physiology (Petrone et al, 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Although Petrone et al (2014) were the first literacy researchers to critically analyze YA texts through a youth lens, other researchers have explored the utility of this lens. Niccolini (2015), for example, examined frequent reasons for banning YA literature using the youth lens and questioned how those reasons might reflect social constructions of adolescence.…”

Section: Adolescents/ce and The Youth Lensmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although Petrone et al (2014) provided their own template and modeled analysis of one YA text through the youth lens, there was a need to explore how adolescent constructs could be analyzed across a more diverse array of YA literature commonly found in secondary classrooms. By first identifying representations of youths through literary elements and then critically analyzing the stereotypical nature of those representations, we have highlighted the diverse and complex ways that adolescent constructs are represented in YA texts that, unlike traditional canonical literature (Santoli & Wagner, 2004), are relevant to students' personal lives.…”

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Defying Expectations: Representations of Youths in Young Adult Literature

Silva¹,

Savitz²

2019

J Adolescent & Adult Lit

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The authors used a youth lens to interrogate representations of adolescent characters and experiences that reinforce or contradict social constructions of youths across young adult novels commonly read in secondary classrooms. The authors found examples across all 10 examined novels of adolescent characters taking on adult‐like roles, exercising emotional discipline, and/or demonstrating agency and independence in ways that challenge traditional ideas about youths and disrupt socially constructed stereotypes of adolescent/ce. The authors suggest that the youth lens, especially when applied to young adult literature, can foster critical analysis and discussion of dominant discourses about adolescents/ce, and offer their own analytic template as a scaffolding tool for secondary educators to use with students.

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Defying Expectations: Representations of Youths in Young Adult Literature

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Savitz²

2019

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Representation of Media and Technology in Young Adult Literature

Rish

2019

The International Encyclopedia of Media Literacy

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Young adult literature as a literary genre is broadly defined as fiction featuring young adult characters with whom young adult readers can relate. As the genre of young adult literature has evolved and more titles have been published and marketed toward young adult readers, media and technology have been variously represented as elements in the lives of characters, means through which characters address problems, and focal factors of the problem presented to characters. Particular representations of media and technology in realistic, dystopic, and science fiction examples of young adult literature include, but are not limited to, digital communication, social media, and surveillance technology. These examples are often not representative of diverse young adult readers and their life experiences.

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“Bold of them to assume I want to wait until I'm older to do what I love:” One teens' activism and civic engagement online

McDaniel

2024

J Adolescent & Adult Lit

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This paper explores the social media literacies of Dakari, a 16‐year‐old Black teen reader, writer, and activist, within a broader 3‐month multi‐case study on diverse teens' online literacies. The focus is on Dakari's multimodal literacy practices related to social justice activism and civic engagement. The study highlights how social media platforms empower youth, exemplified by teens like Dakari who utilize these spaces to influence culture, practice critical literacies, and establish civic identities. Examining Dakari's case, three key themes emerge: (1) addressing systemic racism, (2) driving change as a content creator, and (3) challenging the idea that one must wait until adulthood to make a difference. The study highlights the transformative potential of youth of Color's social media literacies, suggesting a reimagining of educators' roles to recognize and respect teens' online literacies while fostering youth identity and political engagement. It is imperative to reshape teaching methods for justice and social change in the digital age. This involves supporting student literacy development and acknowledging the timely language and literacies of youth in social media contexts.

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TheYouth Lens

Abstract: As much as gender, race, class, and sexuality reflect socially constructed categories of accrued, and often problematic meanings, so, too, does adolescence represent a social category of significations currently viewed as "true" but understandable as

Cited by 39 publications

References 33 publications

Defying Expectations: Representations of Youths in Young Adult Literature

Defying Expectations: Representations of Youths in Young Adult Literature

Representation of Media and Technology in Young Adult Literature

“Bold of them to assume I want to wait until I'm older to do what I love:” One teens' activism and civic engagement online

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